Spring II - Ed Carter
Two women encounter one another across dimensions, each perceiving the other as if a ghost. As they make contact, the structures of their dimensional cells begin to flicker and wane, and a possible transcendence presents itself.
Bookanima: Dance
BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation to give new cinematic life to book. It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema. Animation links Book to Cinema. Along the way, it experiments Locomotion based on Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey. It experiments locomotion of Dance along with its stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance.
UnSound - Vivian Ostrovsky
A Russian can say, “I hear the smell…” A maestro has a vision of what a symphony should sound like. In a silent film how can one make the spectator see the sound? A vivid and noisy assemblage of archival and contemporary imagery meditating on the past and presence of film audio.
Fulfillment/ Marketplace - Christopher Thompson
A company returns to the site of its birth in search of actualization, an alchemist fulfills an order request sent from the future, and the invisible hand manifests to guide its children towards the divine.
Aquarium - Stephanie Mawell
Aquarium is a choreography of light and motion with a unique perspective on the exquisite beauty that is present in infinite abundance when one focuses attention on the motions of ocean water and its expressive optical qualities. In the first half of the film, composer Max Berlin has created a ‘jazzy’ arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ Aquarium composition (1886, Mouvement VII from the Le carnaval des animaux suite) for bass, piano and percussion that is then followed by an orchestral performance of the original Aquarium composition. Shot in the heavenly Bonaire, Caribbean -- in breaking waves, in tide pools and underwater.
A POTENTIALITY - Dana Berman Duff
A short, structured film adding the elements of time and sound to a graphic artwork by Susan Silton using five front pages of the New York Times from 1933 and 1934. Reports from home mixed with the rise of disturbing events abroad having an uncanny echo in our current news.
A Short Film with No Plot - James F. Robinson
An experimental film about movement, power, men, women and old Hollywood. My goal was to take only four elements; a single moving image shot, one sound effect, one track of original music and a portion of vintage movie dialogue, and create something with different layers of meaning.